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Curriculum Vitae
MARTIN W. LEWIS
Department of History, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6045. (650) 7259424. [email protected].
EDUCATION
1987
1985
1979
Doctor of Philosophy (Geography), University of California, Berkeley.
Master of Arts (Geography), University of California, Berkeley.
Bachelor of Arts (Environmental Studies), University of California, Santa
Cruz.
EMPLOYMENT
20062002-2006
2001-2002
1995-2001
1994-1995
1993-1994
1988-1993
Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Stanford University
Lecturer in International Relations, International Policy Studies,
and History, Stanford University (Interim Director, International
Relations, 2004-2005 and 2005-2006)
Research Professor in Geography and Co-Director of the
Program in Comparative Area Studies, Duke University
Associate Research Professor of Geography and Co-Director of the
Program in Comparative Area Studies, Duke University
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of
Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Assistant Professor of the Practice of Environmental Geography,
School of the Environment and Center for International Studies,
Duke University
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Regional
Science, The George Washington University
BOOKS
1997.
The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography (with Kären
Wigen) Berkeley: University of California Press.
1996.
Edited, with Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt. The Flight from Science
and Reason. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol.
775.
(Reprinted 1997, Johns Hopkins University Press)
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1992.
Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical
Environmentalism. Durham: Duke University Press. (Paperback
edition, with new preface, 1994).
(Excerpted as "The Green Threat to Nature: An Eco-Critique of Radical
Environmentalism." Harper's, November 1992, pp. 26-32)
(Excerpted in Elmwood Quarterly, Berkeley, CA. 1993)
(Summary of Chapter Six, "Third World Development and Population,"
published in Frontiers in Economic Thought: Ecological
Economics. Program for the Study of Sustainable Change and
Development, Tufts University)
(Introduction reprinted in Debating the Earth: The Environmental Politics
Reader. John Dryzek and David Schlosberg, eds. Oxford
University Press. 1998, pp. 398-410)
1992.
Wagering the Land: Ritual, Capital, and Environmental Degradation in
the Cordillera of Northern Luzon. 1900-1986. Berkeley and Los
Angeles: University of California Press.
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
2000
“Global Ignorance.” The Geographical Review 90(4) 603-628.
1999
“A Maritime Response to the Crisis in Area Studies.” (with Kären Wigen)
Geographical Review 89(2), 161-168. (Special Issue: “Oceans
Connect”).
1999
“Dividing the Ocean Sea.” Geographical Review 89 (2), 188-214.
(Special Issue: “Oceans Connect”).
1993
"On Human Connectedness with Nature." New Literary History 24(4),
797-809.
(Reprinted, 2004 in Intersections, ed. Mark Johnson. Littleton,
MA: Tapestry Press [specialized publication designed for required
first-year course at Central College, Pella, Iowa]).
1993
"The Reinvention of Cultural Geography." (with Marie Price). Annals of
the Association of American Geographers 83(1), 1-17.
1992
"Agricultural Regions in the Philippine Cordillera." Geographical
Review 82(1), 29-42.
1991
"Elusive Societies: A Regional-Cartographical Approach to the Study of
Human Relatedness." Annals of the Association of American
Geographers 81(4), 605-626.
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1989.
“Commercialization and Community Life: The Geography of Exchange in
a Small-Scale Society." Annals of the Association of
American Geographers 79(3), 390-410.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Forthcoming. “Geographies.” In Jerry Bentley, ed. The Oxford Handbook of World
History. Oxford University Press.
2009. “Where is Asia? What is the Pacific?: The Politics and Practice of Global
Division.” In Terence Wesley-Smith and Jon Goss, eds., Remaking Area
Studies: New Perspectives on Learning Asia-Pacific. University of Hawaii
Press.
2003. “Asian Geography.” (with Nanda Shrestha, Shaul Cohen, and Mary McDonald).
In Gary L. Gaile and Cort J. Willmott, eds. Geography in America at the Dawn of
the 21st Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 618-657.
1996. "Radical Environmental Philosophy and the Assault on Reason." In Paul R.
Gross, Norman Levitt, and Martin W. Lewis, eds., The Flight from Science and
Reason. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 775, 209-230.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Forthcoming. “Geographical Ignorance.” Encyclopedia of Geography, Barney Warf,
editor. SAGE Reference.
2004. “Cartography.” Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, William
McNeill, senior editor. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing.
2004. “Geographical Constructions.” Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History,
William McNeill, senior editor. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing.
2004. “Cultural and Geographical Areas” Berkshire Encyclopedia of World
History, William McNeill, senior editor. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire
Publishing.
TEXTBOOKS
2008. Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment, Development.
(with Lester Rowntree, Marie Price, and William Wyckoff). Fourth
Edition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
(2006, Third Edition)
(2003, Second Edition)
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(2000; First Edition)
(Winner, 2001 Award for Best New Textbook in the Humanities and Social
Sciences, Text and Academic Authors Association).
Forthcoming. Globalization and Diversity: Geography of a Changing World. (with
Lester Rowntree, Marie Price, and William Wyckoff). Third Edition
New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
(2008, Second Edition)
(2004, First Edition)
MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS
2004. Solicited comments on Mark von Hagen’s “Empires, Borderlands, and Diasporas:
Eurasia as Anti-Paradigm for Post-Soviet Studies,” and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt’s
“European History as Comparative History.” Ab Imperio (Kazan, Russia), 2004,
1: 174-177.
2004. “Geography and Culture.” In Condensed Knowledge, eds., Will Pearson, Mangesh
Hattikuder, and Elizabeth Hunt. HarperResource. Pp 107-128.
2000. “Third Worldism or Globalism: A Reply to Blaut’s Review of
The Myth of Continents.” (with Kären Wigen) Journal of World History 11(1),
81-92.
2000. “Is There a Third World? Response to Paul Mack.” Current
History.
2000. “The Water World: Maritime Basins as Global Architects” Ubique: Notes from the
American Geographical Society 20, 1-2.
1999. “Toward a Self-Critical Environmentalism?” Solicited Response to Lynton Keith
Caldwell’s “Is Humanity Doomed To Self-Destruct?” Politics and the Life
Sciences, September 1999, 215-217.
1999. “Is There a Third World?” Special Symposium on Rethinking the Third World,
Current History 98(631), 355-358.
1998. “Hearts and Minds: Author’s Response.” Review Symposium on The Flight from
Science and Reason. Metascience 7(1), 39-45.
1996. Solicited Communication to the Editor. Comments on Joel E. Cohen's
"How Many People Can the Earth Support?" The Sciences (The New York
Academy of Sciences), v. 36, page 5.
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1994. "Environmental History Challenges the Myth of a Primordial Eden." Chronicle of
Higher Education, May 4, 1994, page A56.
(Reprinted in Journal of Geological Education.)
(Reprinted in Scott Slovic, ed., Worldly Words: American Nature Writing for
Students of English. Tokyo: Fumikura Press, 1995)
1993. "On Reading Cultural Geography" (with Marie Price). (Reply to P.
Jackson, J. Duncan, and D. Cosgrove). Annals of the Association of American
Geographers 83(3), 520-522.
BOOK REVIEWS
Forthcoming. Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000, by Barry Cunliffe. The
International History Review.
2008. Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years, by Vaclav Smil. Issues in
Science and Technology 25(1), 91-95.
2008. A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire,
by Sugata Bose. The Geographical Review 98(2), 306-308.
2007. The Unnatural History of the Sea, by Callum Roberts. Issues in Science and
Technology 24(1), 91-95
2007. The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate in Crisis and the Fate of Humanity, by
James Lovelock. Issues in Science and Technology 23(2), 81-84.
2006. Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America, by Bruce
Babbitt. Issues in Science and Technology.
2005. The New Consumers: The Influence of Affluence on the Environment, by
Norman Meyers and Jennifer Kent. Issues in Science and Technology 21(2), 9092.
2004. Red Sky at Morning, by Gus Speth. Issues in Science and Technology 20(4), 79-81.
2004. American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to
Globalization, by Neil Smith. American Historical Review, p. 554.
2003. Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise, by Gaylord Nelson. Issues in
Science and Technology, 19(3), 98-100.
2002. The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950, by Susan Schulten. The
American Historical Review, p. 226.
2001. Struggles over Geography: Violence, Freedom, and Development at the
Millennium, by Michael Watts. Journal of Peasant Studies 28(4), 178-180.
2001. This Sovereign Land: A New Vision for Governing the West, by Daniel Kemmis,
and Plundered Promise: Capitalism, Politics and the Fate of Federal Lands, by
Richard Behan. Issues in Science and Technology 17(4), 77-81.
2000. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth
Century World, by J. R. McNeill. The Geographical Review 90, 147-149.
2000. Earth Rising, by Philip Shabecoff and The Land That Could Be, by William
Shutkin. Issues in Science and Technology 17, 75-77.
2000. Defending Illusions: Federal Protection of Ecosystems, by Allan K. Fitzsimmons.
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Professional Geographer 52, 572-573.
2000. Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans, by Jonathan D. Moreno. Issues
in Science and Technology 16, 82-84.
1999. The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice, by Christopher Foreman. Issues
in Science and Technology 15, 88-90.
1997. Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our
Future, by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich. Issues in Science and
Technology 13, 82-84.
1996. The Causes of Tropical Deforestation, edited by Katrina Brown and David Pearce.
Geographical Review 86, 131-133.
1996. But Is It True? A Citizen's Guide to Environmental Health and Safety Issues, by
Aaron Wildavsky. Issues in Science and Technology 12, 77-82.
1995. Plundering Paradise: The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines, by
Robin Broad (with John Cavanagh). Annals of the Association of American
Geographers 85, 591-593.
1994. In the Nature of Things: Language, Politics and the Environment, edited by Jane
Bennett and William Chaloupka. Annals of the Association of American
Geographers 84, 514-516.
1994. Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental
Movement, by Robert Gottlieb. Issues in Science and Technology
10, 80-84.
1993. Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java, by Nancy
Lee Peluso. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 83, 738-740.
1993. Deforestation in the Postwar Philippines, by David Kummer. Geographical
Review 83, 95-98.
1992. Soil Erosion in a Coastal River Basin: A Case Study from the Philippines, by
Random DuBois. Pilipinas 18, 97-98.
1992. Biodiversity: Social and Ecological Perspectives, edited by Vandana Shiva, et al.
Journal of Asian Studies 51,871-872.
1992. The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan
Kingdom, by James Duncan. Geographical Review 82(3), 349-352.
1992. Rainforest Politics: Ecological Destruction in South-East Asia, by Philip Hurst.
Geographical Review 82(1), 94-96.
1990 Paradise Found and Lost. Volume III: The Pacific Since Magellan, by O.H.K.
Spate. Geographical Review 80(2), 202.
1989. Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce. Volume I: The Lands below the Winds, by
Anthony Reid. Geographical Review 79(3), 385.
INVITED ADDRESSES
2008. “Public Works and Public Goods.” College Eight Core Lecture, University of
California at Santa Cruz.
2005. “World Regions and Oceanic Linkages: Historical Connections between the
Philippines and East Asia.” Indiana University, Symposium on Globalizing East
Asian Studies.
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2003. “The Politics and Practice of Global Division.” The George Washington
University, Conference on Geography in International Affairs.
2002. “Local Landscapes, Global Flows: The China Trade and Upland Development in
Northern Luzon.” University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA.
2002. “Where is Asia? What is the Pacific? The Politics and Practice of Global
Division.” Keynote Address, School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies
Graduate Student Conference, University of Hawaii, Manoa.
2002. “Oceans Connect: A New System of Global Mapping.” Department of Geography,
University of Hawaii, Manoa.
2000. “Global Ignorance.” Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State
University, Baton Rouge.
2000. “The Myth of Continents Reconsidered.” Department of History, North Carolina
State University, Raleigh.
1999. “Can Geography Entail Global Studies?” Department of Geography, University of
North Carolina, Greensboro.
1999. “Oceans Connect and the Crisis in Area Studies.” Jeremiah Lecture Series, Center
for Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene.
1998. “Global History Entails Global Geography.” Department of History, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
1997. "A Capsule History of Metageography: From the Three Continents to the Post Area
Studies Era." Department of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill.
1996. "The Flight from Science and Reason." Fall Research Seminar of Sigma Xi (The
Scientific Research Society), Texas Tech University, Lubbock.
1995. "Radical Environmental Philosophy and the Assault on Reason." Conference on
the Flight from Science and Reason. The New York Academy of Sciences, New
York.
1995. "The Politics of Environmentalism: The Reformist Position" (Presentation
followed by debate with Vandana Shiva). Oxford University (Mansfield College):
Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics and Society.
1994. "Disengaging from Nature in Order to Save It." J.N. Dickinson Memorial
Lecture, University of Richmond.
1994. "Conflicting Visions of Forest Resource Management in the Highlands of
Luzon." Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Washington
D.C. (Sponsored by Southeast Asianists of Washington D.C.)
1993. "Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism."
Laird Norton Lecture, Duke University, School of the Environment.
1993. "Economic Development, Ritual Persistence, and Environmental Degradation in
the Highlands of Northern Luzon, Philippines." Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University, Department of Geography.
1993. "Environmental Activism and the Hazards of the Radical Approach."
Commonwealth Center for Literary and Social Change, University of Virginia.
1987. "Mansida in Buguias: Economic, Ecological, and Ideological Transformations in
the Philippine Cordillera." University of Wisconsin, Tropical Studies Group.
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PROFESSIONAL ADDRESSES
2004. “The Position of the Philippines in World History: Linkages in Gold and Silver.”
ICOPHIL (International Conference on Philippines Studies), Leiden, Netherlands.
2003. “Cores, Peripheries, and Counter-Cores in Philippine and Global History.”
University of California Semi-Annual Conference on World History, University
of California at Los Angeles.”
2001. “Global Ignorance.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, New York.
1999. “Imagining the Oceans.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Honolulu.
1999. “The Sate of Southeast Asian Geography in America, 1989-1998.” Annual Meeting
of the Association of American Geographers, Honolulu.
1997. "Imagining Southeast Asia." Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Ft. Worth.
1997 "Geographical Research on the Philippines and Filipinos: A
Resurgence?" (with Richard Ulack). Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, Ft. Worth.
1996. "The Construction of the World Regional System." Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, Charlotte.
1994. "Environmental Trauma in the Mountains of Northern Luzon." Conference on
Environment and Development in Southeast Asia, University of Wisconsin,
Madison.
1992. "The Regional Structure of Soil Erosion and Social Differentiation in the Northern
Philippines." Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San
Diego.
1990. "Deforestation in the Cordillera of Northern Luzon, Philippines." Annual
Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, Toronto.
1989. "Subsistence Cultivation and Commercial Agriculture in the Highlands of
Luzon." Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Baltimore.
1988. "Local Initiative and Governmental Bungling in the Benguet Vegetable Industry."
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Phoenix.
OTHER ADDRESSES AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS
2007. Commencement Address. University of California at Berkeley, Department of
South and Southeast Asian Studies, Graduation Cermeny.
2007. Comments on Ravi Rajan's Modernizing Nature, Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA.
2005. “Perspectives on Building Global Civil Society.” Stanford University, International
Relations and International Policy Studies Conference on International NGOs.
2004. Comments on Jim Gelvin’s A History of the Modern Middle East. California
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Middle East Social and Cultural History Association, Winter Meeting, Stanford
University.
2003. “Going for the Gold: Rethinking the Philippines in Global Time and Space.”
Stanford University, The Asia/Pacific Research Center.
2002. “The Position of the Philippines in World History and Geography.” Department of
Geography, University of the Philippines, Diliman.
2002. “Beyond Civilizations: Maritime Networks in the World Geography Classroom.”
Keynote Address for the Conference Oceans Connect: Maritime Perspectives in
and Beyond the Classroom. Duke University.
2001. Faculty Seminar on The Myth of Continents and the Oceans Connect Initiative.
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem North Carolina.
2000. “Comments on Geography and Globalization.” World 2000: A Conference on
Teaching World History and Geography, Austin, Texas.
1999. “Comments on Andre Gunder Frank’s ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian
Age.” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington DC.
1999. “What Is Asia? Where Is the West? Rethinking Area Studies and the Myth of
Continents.” ISTP Lecture, Murdoch University. Perth, Australia.
1999. “Changing Conceptions of Asia and the Pacific.” Department of Geography,
University of Western Australia. Perth, Australia.
1999. “Cultural Change, Economic Development, and Environmental Degradation in
Northern Luzon.” Curtin University. Perth, Australia.
1999. “Response to Commentators.” Panel on “Debunking ‘The Myth’ in Scholarship
and the Classroom” (Special Session on The Myth of Continents: A Critique of
Metageography). Annual Meeting of the World History Association, Victoria,
Canada.
1999. “Oceans Connect and the Mediterranean.” Presentation at “Crossings:
Mediterraneanizing the Politics of Location, History, and Knowledge.”
International Conference at Duke University.
1999. Panel Discussion. “Author Meets Critics: The Myth of Continents.” Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Honolulu.
1998. “Imaging the Oceans.” Oceans Connect Workshop, Duke University.
1998. “Oceans Connect.” Engaging Faculty Series, Duke University.
1998. Comments on “Integration and Disintegration in Contemporary Europe,” by
Alexander Murphy. Plenary Session of the European Specialty Group, Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston.
1996. Comments on "A Storm Blowing from Paradise: Negative Globality and Latin
American Cultural Studies," by Alberto Moreiras. Cultural Anthropology
Colloquium, Duke University.
1995. "East and West: Orient and Occident." Area Studies Workshop, Duke University.
1994. "Green Delusions Reconsidered." Eco-Media, Washington D.C.
1993. "Academic Publishing." In Panel Discussion, "Beyond 800 Words: Selling
Environmental Books and Magazine Articles." National Conference of the
Society of Environmental Journalists, Durham, North Carolina.
1994. Comments on Samuel P. Hays, "Charting a Course for Environmental History."
Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Francisco.
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1992. "Radical Environmentalism and Environmental Action." George Washington
University Students for Environmental Action.
1992. "The 'People's Power Revolution' in the Cordillera of Northern Luzon."
SEAWASH (Southeast Asianists of Washington D.C.) Quarterly Meeting.
1991. "Forms of Radical Environmentalism." Columbian College Alumni
Association, The George Washington University.
1991. "Wagering the Land: Commercial Vegetable Farming and Environmental
Degradation in Northern Luzon." Development Studies Forum, The George
Washington University.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2008-. Organizer, Initiative in World History, Department of History, Stanford University
2006-2007. Associate Director, Program in International Policy Studies, Stanford
University
2004-2006. Interim Director, Programs in International Relations.
2004-2006. Interim Director: Program in International Policy Studies, Stanford
University
2003-2006 Admissions Committee, Program in International Policy Studies, Stanford
University
2005. Organizer: Stanford University International Relations and International Policy
Studies Conference on International NGOs: Perspectives on Building Global Civil
Society
2002- Faculty Advisor, International Relations, Stanford University
1997-2002. Co-Director, Program in Comparative Area Studies, Duke University.
1997-2002. Co-Director, Ford-Foundation Funded Program to Revitalize Area Studies at
Duke University ("Oceans Connect: Culture, Capital, and Commodity Flows
Across Basins").
2000-2002. Member, Advisory Committee, Title VI Center for International Studies.
1998-2002. Member, International Affairs Advisory Committee, Duke University.
1998-2002. Advisor, Environmental Sciences and Policy Undergraduate Program.
1998-2002. Member, Undergraduate Travel Awards Committee, Center for
International Studies.
1997-2002. Member, Study Abroad Committee, Duke University.
1996-2002. Member, Fulbright Fellowship Committee, Duke University.
1998. Co-Director, International Workshop: “Oceans Connect: Mapping a New Global
Scholarship” (Held at Duke University).
1996-1997; 1993-1994. Member: Steering Committee for Comparative Area Studies,
Duke University.
1996-1997; 1993-1994. Pre-Major Advisor, Duke University.
1996-; 1993-1994. Undergraduate Advisor for Comparative Area Studies, Duke
University.
1994-1995. Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Geography, University of
Wisconsin, Madison.
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1994-1995. Faculty Senator, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
1994-1995. Member: Committee on Individual Majors, University of Wisconsin,
Madison.
1989-1993. Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Geography and Regional
Science, The George Washington University.
1988-1989. Member: Committee for the Establishment of a Master’s Program,
Department of Geography and Regional Science, George Washington University.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2004- Representative of the American Geographical Society for the annual Geography
Bowl competition.
2004- Dissertation Committee Member (for Alex Standish), Department of Geography,
Rutgers University
2003- Geography consultant for Mental Floss magazine.
2002-2003. Member, exploratory committee on “Inter-Asian Connections,” Social
Science Research Council, New York.
1996-2001. Associate Editor, The Geographical Review (Published by the
American Geographical Society, New York).
1996-1998. Area Director, Southeast Asia. Asian Studies Specialty Group, Association of
American Geographers.
1994. Member: Planning Committee for the Conference, "The Flight from Reason
and Science." New York Academy of Sciences.
1991. Member: Travel Grant Committee of the International Geographic Congress.
1991. Member: Teller’s Committee of the Association of American Geographers.
Referee: Journal manuscripts for Annals of the Association of American
Geographers (5), Geographical Review (5), Professional Geographer, Economic
Geography, Human Organization, Education about Asia, Progress in Human
Geography, Isis, and Perspectives on Politics; grant proposals for the National
Science Foundation (4); book manuscripts for Duke University Press, Johns
Hopkins University Press, the University of Nevada Press, and Syracuse
University Press; book prospectus for the University of California Press; tenure
referee for the University of Idaho and The George Washington University; PhD
examiner for Murdoch University (Perth, Australia) and for the University of
Queensland (Brisbane, Australia).
Media: One television interview, eight radio interviews (including one in Canada and
one in New Zealand), and several newspaper and magazine mentions in regard to
Green Delusions. One radio interview (“The World”) in regard to The Myth of
Continents. Radio interview on concepts of East, West, North and South
(“Odyssey” [2005]); Reviews of The Myth of Continents and Green Delusions in
the New York Times.
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GRANTS, AWARDS, AND HONORS
Award for Best New Textbook in the Humanities and Social
Sciences, Text and Academic Authors Association. 2001
Ford Foundation Grant for "Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies," Phase II.
1999-2002. (Co-P.I. with Kären Wigen).
Ford Foundation Grant for "Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies," Phase I. 19971998 (Co-P.I. with Kären Wigen).
Nomination for the Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching
Award, Duke University, 1999-2000, 1996-1997, 1993-1994.
Duke University New International Initiatives Grant, 1999.
Duke University Arts and Science Research Grant, 1998. (For Archival Research on the
History of Oceanic Cartography).
Certificate of Appreciation in Recognition of Service to the International
Geographical Congress, Washington D.C. 1992.
Certificate of Appreciation in Recognition of Outstanding Contribution to the
University Community, Student Association of The George Washington
University, 1990.
Junior Faculty Incentive Award, The George Washington University, 1990.
Humanities Graduate Research Grant, University of California, Berkeley, 1987.
Fulbright Fellowship (Institute for International Education), Dissertation
Research Grant, 1985-1986.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate Classes Currently Offered
Global Human Geography A, Asia and Africa
Global Human Geography B, Europe, Russia, the Americas, and the Pacific
History and Geography of Current Global Issues
The History of Southeast Asia
Continuing Studies Classes (Adult Education)
The Geography of U.S Presidential Elections (available a svideo podcast
through Stanford iTunes and iTunes Univwersity)
Global Geopolitics (available as podcast through Stanford iTunes)
Geography of World Cultures (available as podcast through Stanford iTunes)
Geography of U.S. Presidential Elections (available as podcast through
Stanford iTunes)
Undergraduate Classes Formerly Offered
Global Historical Geography
Comparative Approaches to Global Issues
Honors Seminar: Comparative Area Studies
Introduction to Human Geography
Introduction to Physical and Environmental Geography
The Cultural Landscape
Resource Management and Conservation
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Water Resources
Resources and Environmental Quality
Seminar on the History of Geographic Thought
History of Environmental Thought
Old World Encounters (IHUM 56) (with Kären Wigen).
Honors Colloquium, International Relations
Graduate Seminars Currently Offered
History and Geography of Current Global Issues
Issues in International Policy (IPS Core Seminar)
Graduate Seminars Formerly Offered
Decentering the Cultural Map (with Kären Wigen)
Third World Economic Development and Land Degradation
International Development and Biodiversity
Urban-Rural Linkages in Economic and Cultural Geography
LANGUAGES
Reading ability in Spanish and French
Speaking ability in Kankana-ey and Ilocano (Minor Philippine Languages)